I don’t live in a suburb, but I house sit for my suburban-living sister somewhat often, and the suburban experience comes off as quite possibly the most alienating way to live imaginable. It’s a machine for turning people into paranoid psychotics.

they don't care about the state of things after they're dead. they have no interest in maintaining a world that continues after they're gone. they want the apples now and they'll cut the tree down to get them, because fuck everyone else.

water usage also has had several extremely visible consequences with towns noticing their reservoirs running low significantly faster than normal after datacenters show up and causing water bills to spike, iirc. it's a very photogenic concern.

Behind bars? I want to live to see him executed.

The water cycle doesn’t accelerate that way, at least not linearly with input. Aquifer regeneration in particular depends on soil absorption and filtering, which iirc are fairly static.

I feel like the reason most cyberpunk adaptations shit the bed is because the core the genre tends to have a very real beating heart of cynical spirituality and vulgar mysticism that gets flattened over by Wow Cool Cerebrospinal USB Port, and neuromancer especially seems like a prime example of this

it also is a "running out of water" problem though because these things use evaporative cooling and are burning through aquifers significantly faster than they get replenished by the natural water cycle.

the "water thing" is not bullshit and it's dumb as hell to cede ground on it because you don't know how the water cycle works.

Holden isn’t enough of an asshole to really fit this imo, he’s more sullen than anything.

main iphone camera has an equivalent FOV of a 26mm lens, iirc, which is just an odd frame in general. not quite a genuine wide but wider than a normal range lens.

uogh, awooga, and so on

Thing I think about the most re:gqux is how everyone thought all the fuckass little self indulgent callbacks were anno doing anno shit, only for the interviews to show it was actually tsurumaki doing it as, presumably, some weird sad way of trying to impress his boss

I mean I don’t think I’d describe the degree of elon’s white supremacy as low key, tbh

its fucked up how much like actual strawberry the strawberry ones taste

Hey, a pitch is a pitch

Fucked me up extremely hard how much the movie is unlocked by the understanding that Perfidia is an Obama analogue.

Tarantino makes very good movies, but not so good he gets a pass to go around acting like William Friedkin, imo